LIFE ON A FLOWER CLASS CORVETTE. 1. ... Half a dozen men lined up like tug of war team on the escort's fo'csle would start to haul in the rope as the tanker paid out the hose.

Then was off on a convoy to West Africa to join HMS Starwort - a Flower Class Corvette, where I served 4.1/2 years as a Medical Assistant. HMS Starwort was the K.20, built at Clydeside by J.Inglis ...

Flower class Corvette HMCS Brantford construction began Feb 1941 at Midland Ontario, lau. ... 281 fighting ships, 206 minesweepers, 254 tugs, and 3,302 landing craft. Furthermore, ...

These vessels were of the River Class, and HMS Nith was one of these. "If a Flower Class corvette had an estimated cost of £55,000, a River Class firgate would have certainly cost twice that amount.

LIFE ON A FLOWER CLASS CORVETTE. 1. ... Half a dozen men lined up like tug of war team on the escort's fo'csle would start to haul in the rope as the tanker paid out the hose.

Then was off on a convoy to West Africa to join HMS Starwort - a Flower Class Corvette, where I served 4.1/2 years as a Medical Assistant. HMS Starwort was the K.20, built at Clydeside by J.Inglis ...